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Re: No More Google

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Post by forrestthewoods »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

I use Firefox, DuckDuckGo, and Hey (email).

There’s no replacement for YouTube. But otherwise I’ve cut it out pretty well.

I do have to maintain old gmail accounts as they’re logins for god knows how many sites.

Re: No More Google

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Post by cortesoft »

redvenom wrote: post #40

Another option that can replace a lot of Google services is getting your own domain. You can get email with that, and install a bunch of applications to replace a lot of the services like photo sharing. Of course the downside is you have to maintain some of it yourself (but you can get an auto-updating Wordpress installation for sharing photos), and you don't get as much connectivity because you have to promote it yo…

You also have to make sure you stay up to date on security patches.

Re: No More Google

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Post by kgwxd »

Nothing for calendar. The only thing keeping me on Google is a spreadsheet that has a script to query my calendar to make a budget forecast. I haven't found a good alternative calendar with an API.

Re: No More Google

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Post by chubot »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

If nothing else, it has the effect of avoiding new dependencies on the cloud / Google.

There are a couple instances where I have migrated off the cloud, but other instances where it's too much work (e-mail, etc.)

But I avoid taking new dependencies on the cloud, unless it's doing something tremendously new that I can't do otherwise.

Re: No More Google

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Post by BlewisJS »

airstrike wrote: post #10

Saw the alternatives to Google Sheets, clicked on Coda wanting to learn more and guess what I got? Welcome to Coda Coda is an all-in-one doc that brings words, data, and teams together. Sign up to make a doc for free. [Sign up with Google]

> "You can also sign up with your email or SSO."

https://coda.io/signup/email

Re: No More Google

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Post by floydnoel »

blunte wrote: post #66
jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

I moved my many domains and many of my clients' domains and mail hosting to Zoho. I looked at Fastmail at the time, but there was one showstopper which I forget (and should revisit). That said, I have found Zoho to be very reliable and reasonably responsive to support issues. And their pricing is very reasonable, imo. For data, I use Tresorit. They have a great, if premium priced, alternative to gdrive, onedrive, etc…

+1 for Zoho. I moved from GSuite for my domain’s email to Zoho and it was pretty easy and has been running well for over two years now.

Re: No More Google

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Post by ricardo81 »

jason0597 wrote: post #34

These anti-Google discussions come and go on the front page of Hacker News, but I'd be curious to know how many people actually degoogle their lives drastically after reading such discussions and articles. I believe it's more of a case of "Oh my god, Google is so disgusting! Shame on Google!", and then people open up a new tab in Chrome to search on Google about their next restaurant destination as if nothing happene…

I use gmail (my own domain) and use their search occasionally. I am aiming not to be using gmail by the new year (think I may opt for Fastmail) and only use G search as a last resort.
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